HARD WORK
A SURGEON’S WORLD, by Max Thorek; Robert Hale. English price, 12/6, HIS is the autobiography of a penniless Hungarian immigrant who made good in the United States. He had to work hard to get through college (his fees were paid in, return for his playing the drum in the college orchestra), and much harder still when he established his medical practice in the Chicago slums where he lived. The chronicle of an immensely*active, full life, it is a perpetual astonishment to the reader, not that Dr. Thorek founds a hospital, is so up-to-date in gland grafting and research generally, or invents some new, safer way of doing a risky operation, but that he has time to play the violin in an amateur orchestra, organise an international professional body, travel to Europe, lecture everywhere and write books, on photography as well as surgery. It is true that he writes badly, but this personal record of an acute, restless spirit is the sort of bad (continued on next page) J
book which is worth something, because | it attempts to deal, even if rather con-: ventionally, with real problems, social,
personal and moral#
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 16
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194HARD WORK New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 16
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